This most basic of indicators will be amply illustrated below.

This indicator is best illustrated by my technology resource teacher website, which includes information on a wide range of technologies including digital video, imaging, music, electronic display, and online communication.

I have attempted to demonstrate this standard through a series of editorials in TIPS:

• The Digital Divide (3/03)
• "But they know more about it..." (2/03)
• A Sense of (Virtual) Community (12/02)
• The Virtual Classroom in a Real World (04/02)
• "...Data-Rich and Information Poor..." (01/02)
• "...Making Learning Fun..." (12/01)

I built the computer on which I am currently composing this document. In addition, my home has a simple router/firewall computer network with wireless access capability which I hand-wired and configured. I also constructed this analysis of the Fayette County WAN and Ambrose LAN.

As an example, I created this example of event-driven video streaming instruction - I videotaped, edited, web-coded and formatted it in is entirety (the video streams often do not work outside of the KDE backbone). I have been the district's primary professional development trainer for digital video editing (I have done workshops on this two years running at the Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference), and have taught many multimedia and music professional development classes.

I have extensive experience with all these capabilities. Since beginning the degree program, I have added extensive Access database experience associated with the Fayette County District Technology Assessment (still in press - a partial analysis can be found in this Technology Plan Assessment).

As coordinator of the Fayette County Video-Linked Classroom (discussed in the Connections section of September, 2002 TIPS), I have selected video-conferencing hardware and trained for its use. I also designed, installed, implemented, and support the Fayette County Online Forums.

As school technology coordinator for Bryan Station High, I coordinated the purchase, configuring, and implementation of assistive technology, including touch screens and switches, screen readers, and other technologies. Since joining the district technology office, my association with this capability remains indirect. I added the Assistive Technology page to TIPS beginning with the December, 2001 issue of TIPS. 

I have assisted teachers in the use of student-generated project learning through multimedia which address this - primarily through the Fayette County Pet Project program - specifically  Civil Rights after MLK and RFK, a high school social studies unit on civil rights. I also supported the multimedia Iditarod Project with Henry Clay special education teacher Linda Victor.

This indicator cannot be adequately illustrated by examples, since it is the absence rather than the presence of behaviors which this indicator demands. I am committed to equitable use of technology for students. As an example, the Fayette County Video-Linked Classroom is an attempt to provide AP and elective courses at schools where they have traditionally had insufficient enrollment to justify staffing. This belief in equitable use is present in my own practices. My relationship with legal use of computers might be illustrated by my promotion of copyright sensitivity, and the correct application of "Fair Use."

This is best exemplified by my current status as moderator of the educational technology LISTSERV EDTECH - a moderated email discussion forum with over 3,000 members and volume varying from 10 to 80 messages daily. I also piloted email discussion within our district, and researched its effectiveness.

The best example of this is The E-Line, an email newsletter I produce. In almost every issue I review Web resources and software.

I have improved in this area, illustrated by Electronic Mail Discussion as a Technology Integration Resource, a research document of email discussion lists in Fayette County, as well as The Efficacy of Video-Linked High School Classrooms in Fayette County Public Schools (both are in PDF format).

As mentioned in Performance Indicator 9 above, an example of this might be Civil Rights after MLK and RFK, a high school social studies unit on civil rights developed as a PET Project. Another illustration of this is the Fayette County Schools Forums, which serve as a platform for a wide range of instructional practices, including journaling, peer review writing, and group or class discussion.

My involvement in IMMEX has provided a platform by which students can improve their problem-solving skills as well as content area knowledge. IMMEX provides a variety of assessment formats, including knowledge mastery, strategy mapping, and time. I am also involved in the Fayette County District Technology Assessment, though it's relationship to student assessment is tangential at best.

I was the developer of the Bryan Station High School Acceptable Use Policy, which placed ordinary computer use outside of its purveyance for the first time in Fayette County (it addressed connectivity issues only). [This document is no longer on line.] For three years I was responsible for teaching ethical and legal technology use to the entire student population of Bryan Station High, through their network and Acceptable Use Policy orientation classes each fall.